Gaming Pop Quiz, Summer Edition!

Well, we are entering into those hot summer months of video gaming, where there is usually a drought and we are forced to play or catch up on old titles. However, this year, we just got a new slew of games to get through, and that’s assuming we even got through the first couple of batches. I can’t wait to get caught up on Alan Wake, and I’m enjoying Red Dead Redemption for what little I’ve played of it. I figured with all of this going on, it was time for another Gaming Pop Quiz.

So, for our gaming pop quiz, we’ve come up with 7 different questions about your gaming history. As always with our getting-to-know-you type games, feel free to answer with as much or as little as you like. Obviously, some of these things you might not remember, but answer to the best of your ability. Go!

1. If you could switch the genre of any game to another, which game would it be and to what genre?

2. What games would you like to see bundled together and re-released in HD?

3. What is your favorite video game weapon/power-up of all time?

4. How many hours a week do you play video games?

5. What is the best boss battle you’ve played in a game?

6. Which video game do you most want to see as a movie, and who do you want attached to it?

7. What is the most money you’d pay for your favorite game, if video games ever started wildly fluctuating in price?

17 thoughts on “Gaming Pop Quiz, Summer Edition!”

1. I would have to go with switching Borderlands to an MMORPG. I think it would have suited the game better.

2. All the Paper Mario games, the COD games, and the ecco the dolphin games(imagine that on HD!)

3. The obvious choice here would be the Gravity Gun or Portal Gun, but I have a thing for random powerful crap, so im going to say the Shockwave Q pin from The World Ends With You

4. According to steam, about 16 hours a week, but this doesent count my time on my Xbox, Nintendo DS, or Ps3.

5. Hmmm… I think the ones that stick out are Princess Shroob from Mario and Luigi: Partners in time, Gannondorf from Ocarina of Time(SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME ENERGY BALL PING PONG!), and the Tank from Left 4 Dead.

6. Bioshock. Someone else pick the actors for me.

7. I would pay 200 bucks for portal 2 when it comes out, and pretty much any sega genesis game.

2 – The three original Half-Life’s, sure HL got ported to the source engine but very little was changed graphically. Even if the black mesa mod ever gets released there’s still Blue Shift and Opposing Force. I would pay full price for all 3 together with HL2 graphics.

3 – Crowbar from HL! But really it would either be the Super Gravity Gun or Sascha from TF2 (heavys minigun).

4 – It varies wildly but probably close to 40.

5 – *insert any zelda boss battle here*

6 – No video game movie is ever any good so I would pick the game with the most annoying fanHALObase to knock them down.

7 – £60/$90 for just the disc and £100/$150 for Collectors Editions. (Not accurate monetary conversions, just estimates)

1) I think an FPS version of Age of Mythology would be cool. Age of Mythology is by Ensemble Studios, the guys who made Age of Empires and Halo Wars, and it’s obviously an RTS. AoM combines humans and siege weapons with legendary heroes and mythical monsters and god powers. An FPS version of AoM would have skirmishes of human, hero, and mythical units and would be a lot of fun to use all the different soldiers and monsters. God powers could work like the killstreaks in MW2 or be obtained by capturing Monuments or Obelisks. Oh snap, that would be awesome!

2) I’d love to have the full Fire Emblem series repackaged and in HD, including the ones that were Japan-only. That, or every single one of the Castlevanias.

3) Combat Shotgun from Left 4 Dead. Boom. And I have a ton of other favorites, but there’s just too many to count.

5) Dammit, another Best of All!? Ugggh, you’re killin’ me. Top 3 in no order: The Master from Fallout 1, Ganon from Ocarina of Time, Glados from Portal.

6) I like Jarred Moose’s idea, the Bioshock movie. I think it’d be better to have a plot different from Bioshock 1 or 2 but still set in Rapture after the Civil War. Leonardo DiCaprio could be the protagonist, and maybe there could be some black guy played by Denzel Washington. And maybe Daniel Day-Lewis could play Andrew Ryan or a similar character, since it doesn’t have to follow the games’ plots.

7) I’m not paying over $100 for a game, unless the collector’s edition is amazing and the game is tenfold amazing. I’d like to see future games be DLC, like Battlefield 1943, which would be able to cost less which would be nice.

1. Fallout 3, make it fallout-style. I love open-world games, and Morrowind remains my favorite game of all time, but Bethesda really screwed the pooch with oblivion and fo3. The gamebryo engine was nice for its time, but these days it looks kind of…fail.

2. You can easily guess my answer to this by now. Morrowind, Morrowind, Morrowind, and the expansions to Morrowind. Oh, and System Shock 2 while you’re at it.

3. If you’ve ever played painkiller, there’s a weapon that doubles as a chaingun and rocket launcher. There’s also one that shoots shurikens and lightning. Take your pick.

5. Putting Shadow of the Colossus aside (that’s cheating), I’ll agree with a few of you guys above and say Ganon from OoT. To this day I fear the redead’s wail.

6. Mass Effect, with Robert Downy Jr as Shepard.

7. WHEN video games start fluctuating wildly in price, I’ll only pay premium (i.e. $60 or more) for developers I support. Valve, for example, I’d pay top dollar for. TF2 is easily worth two, three hundred dollars based on how many hours I’ve gotten out of it, and I like what they’re doing. SC2, though, wouldn’t get much more than thirty. Solid game, I’m sure, but I just don’t like Blizzard.

1 Mirror’s Edge: changed to a free-roam adventure.
2 MGS1-3! With updated controls and camera (make it happen Konami!).
3 Cold-Blooded Pro. BEST. PERK. EVER.
4 Too many.
5 Pysco Mantis or Andrew Ryan. Simple, genius, effective.
6 Hitman but with the guy who does his voice in the games because it would add so much to the experience.
7 £60. But it had better have additional content.

7: Seeing as how we used to pay upwards of $80-90 for games back in the 16 bit days (Phantasy Star 4 and Chrono Trigger, we’re looking at you), I guess I’d say that $100 would be the absolute limit for a new game. Used and rare is a whole different matter, of course (excuse me while I go look for a Panzer Dragoon Saga listing for under $250).

1. Man, all my favorite games are fine just the way they are…I’d make Dragon Age multiplayer. That counts.

2. Probably a weird choice, but I always liked the Fear Effect games. Although those games are PS1, so I don’t know how much HD would improve the graphics. Either that or Oddworld, especially Stranger’s Wrath. (I’ll also second Morrowind, wox!)

3. The dual hidden blades in Assassin’s Creed 2…so cool.

4. Since I’m done with student teaching? Way too much. when I was working? Maybe 10.

5. I loved that boss battle against that huge minotaur in either GoW 1 or 2…where you had to slam a battering ram into his armor. Also the flying colossus at the lake in SotC and the Old Monk in Demon’s Souls (if you played it you’d know why.)

6. Miyazaki should do an Okami movie. Never happen, though.

7. Right now, I’d say I won’t spend over $80 (unless it’s a really cool LE or something), but I’m sure that will change someday…

1. Genres don’t contribute to games in my opinion. Sorry if that’s being a spoiled sport.

2. Prime games, with improved and more realistic graphics and mechanics. It would be great to see the Metroid series on a whole look more realistic, besides the morph ball transformation, of course.

3. Can’t decide on this.

4. Enough for me to regret it sometimes. At least 1 hour a day.

5.SoTC put boss battles on another level. No other boss battles I can think of really compare. There aren’t many good bosses nowadays.

6. Still wouldn’t mind seeing a proper Halo movie. Bioshock would also be my pick. Maybe a Lost Planet as well.

7. $169.99 with an incredibly good length and without DLC’s. With $40 more for an incredibly good multiplayer. Game should last at least 8 months before it gets to the “simply replaying because the game is good” stage.